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We chatted last week about books we love, and I forgot one of my favorites! Garlic and Sapphires is an incredibly entertaining memoir about Ruth Reichl's stint as the New York Times food critic. She would dress up in crazy costumes so restaurateurs wouldn't recognize her. Her costumes transformed her into an old lady, an English teacher from Michigan, a blonde divorcee from the South, a red-haired hippie...the list goes on. Her memoir is hilarious and compelling, and also has beautiful insights about food and relationships. Have you ever read it?

Flashback: I had the book on tape (which Ruth reads herself!)...and actually listened to it on a DISCMAN!

I commute 2+ hours a day so I listen to a fair number of audiobooks. The ones read by the authors are always so good: Nora Ephron's "I Remember Nothing" and "I Feel Bad About my Neck" and Mindy Kaling's "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?" are some of my favorites (and help take your mind off of traffic). Might have to try this one next.

I adore this book as well, and was just thinking of it, too, as I have just finished Blood, Bones & Butter. It's unbelievable — written by Gabrielle Hamilton (of Canal House Cooks lunch/Prune/and so many other things) — and kept me up till all hours of the night till I finished it. Such a good read!

All of her books are fantastic. I read Tender at the Bone first and just couldn't get enough, so I read them all. They are just as you said, funny, warm, and leave you really wanting to share a meal with her.

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This is one of my all time favorite books! I loved it and have read it multiple times. It always makes me want to travel and eat fabulous food. I always think of it when I am eating sushi as well. Have you seen her on Top Chef Masters? I adore her.

This is one of my favorite books of all time! Actually, all of Ruth's books are fantastic. I wish she were my aunt...would love to hang out with her to eat, get advice and listen to more of her stories.

Oh, it's so funny that you posted this....one of my favorite books is Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess (Gael Greene's memoir). I LOVED that book. I have no idea why but I always had a crush on Clay Felker so I read Gael's book to see what she might say regarding him. I never expected to love the book so much! What an amazing job and it was not surprising to me that a person with an amazing and diverse culinary palette would also love sex so much. I will definitely be checking this book out.

I love Ruth Reichl's writing. I've read Garlic and Sapphires as well as Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me With Apples.

I loved Tender at the Bone -- about her childhood and early 20s, (personal fave Reichl book) and found Comfort Me With Apples to be such a truthful -- and raw -- telling of times in her life (late 20's to her times at the LA Times) that really require a writer whose writing about her life to be honest -- even about those things you usually don't tell people.

If you haven't read those, I definitely suggest you check them out. They're definitely different than Garlic and Sapphires, but great reads.

@tall and salty -- totally!! i used to listen to audiobooks all the time on my walk to my old job. i loved Middlesex; the guy who read it was amazing -- he did all the voices of the greek women, too! :)

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Love her! Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me With Apples are both favorites. I especially loved reading about her time at the University of Michigan, where I went as well (although I didn't do much cooking with Cottage Inn, Zingermanns, and Pizza House nearby :))

I've read this one and Tender at the bone and comfort me with apples. The latter was my favorite of the three but they are all good. And you should definitely try the brownie recipe in Apples..it's amazing!

Everytime I drive over to Berkeley, I think of Ruth Reichl. She often uses the street names as recipe names in, I think it's her second memoir comfort me with apples... anyway.... there is a fantastic recipe. like it will bring tears to your eyes. for Danny Kay's Lemon Pasta. Make it. People will love you. Yum! Thanks for sharing.

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As long as you are using TP and not your hands, the germs that land on the reading material are going to end up on the counter, the soap, and your clothing, as well. Do you change your clothes every time you use the bathroom?

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